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How Much Animal Product do the Chinese Consume? Empirical Evidence from Household Surveys
Wang, Ji-Min; Zhou, Zhang-Yue; Yang, Jun - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 12 (2004)
marketing activities. However, publications by China's State Statistical Bureau underestimate animal product consumption. Such … underestimated statistics affect policy making and marketing initiatives and also lead to the estimation of distorted parameters that …
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2010
lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and … production contracts depending on the availability of alternative marketing options. A propensity score matching method is used …
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The Possible Role of Futures Market and the Public Warehousing in Trade-financing Activity
Kozar, Laszlo - 2010
assistshort and long-term marketing decisions. The economical basis of the model is thecombinative use of two market institutions …
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MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES FOR JAMAICA’S GRAPEFRUIT INDUSTRY
Evans, Edward A.; Nalampang, Sikavas; Spreen, Thomas H. - 2007
illegal. One alternative worth considering is exporting fresh grapefruits to the EU. This marketing opportunity comes about as … the demand for the fruit in the EU could create a marketing opportunities for countries such as Jamaica. The paper … discusses the state of the Florida citrus industry with particular reference to grapefruits and the marketing prospects for …
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Health Claims Regulation and Welfare
Huang, Rui; Bonanno, Alessandro - 2011
Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, 20 December 2006, requires functional foods manufacturers operating in Europe to provide evidence that the health claims reported on the packaging are truthful. However, most applications reviewed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have been rejected,...
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Optimal Coverage Level Choice with Individual and Area Plans of Insurance
Bulut, Harun; Collins, Keith J.; Zacharias, Thomas P. - 2011
We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...
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EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF THE 2007 RECALL ON THE DEMAND FOR PEANUT BUTTER BRANDS
Bakhtavoryan, Rafael; Capps, Oral; Salin, Victoria - 2011
The US Food and Drug Administration confirmed in February 2007 that a major foodborne illness outbreak was caused by two peanut butter brands, Peter Pan and Great Value, manufactured by ConAgra Foods Inc. at its Sylvester, Georgia, processing plant. As a result, on February 14, 2007, ConAgra...
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Impacts of Retailers’ Pricing Strategies for Produce Commodities on Farmer Welfare
Li, Chenguang; Sexton, Richard J. - 2009
The typical model of retail pricing for produce products assumes retailers set price equal to the farm price plus a certain markup. However, observations from scanner data indicate a large degree of price dispersion in the grocery retailing market. In addition to markup pricing behavior, we...
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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?
Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - 2008
This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...
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Testing Asymmetric Price Transmission in the Vertical Supply Chain in De-regulated RiceMarkets in Bangladesh
Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; Begum, Ismat Ara; Buysse, Jeroen; … - 2010
marketing chain to correct the market inefficiency, if needed. The vertical price leadership at the wholesale level to theretail … in the marketing literature is inferred but not empirically verified. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to fill up this …
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